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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts
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Beware of Health Insurance Companies Bearing Gifts

F. Douglas Stephenson

Gainesville, Florida (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – When it comes to Medicare Advantage,“beware of health insurance companies bearing gifts”, just like “beware of Greeks […]

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

Can the Arab League’s Break with Hamas Shift the Course of History?

08/19/2025 By Foreign Policy in Focus

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

‘There’s no such Thing as someone else’s Children’ – Omar El Akkad bears witness to the Destruction of Gaza and the West’s quiet Assent

08/19/2025 By The Conversation

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My Pandemic in Three Acts:  Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

My Pandemic in Three Acts: Dealing with the Disease that Never Seems to Leave Town

By Nina Burleigh | – ( Tomdispatch.com) – On New Years’ Eve 2019, Americans celebrated the advent of the roaring ‘20s with fireworks and champagne, […]

Tomdispatch

Donald Trump
Why the Oath Keepers looks an Awful lot like al-Qaeda and Trump is its Usama Bin Laden

Why the Oath Keepers looks an Awful lot like al-Qaeda and Trump is its Usama Bin Laden

Revised. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Although the Congressional inquiry into the Jan. 6 insurrection is releasing new information about the ties between the White […]

Juan Cole

Islamophobia
Why Muslim countries are quick at condemning Defamation – but often ignore Rights Violations against Muslim Minorities

Why Muslim countries are quick at condemning Defamation – but often ignore Rights Violations against Muslim Minorities

By Ahmet T. Kuru, San Diego State University | – The Indian government finds itself in a diplomatic crisis following offensive remarks by the ruling […]

The Conversation

Israel/ Palestine
Is it now a Crime to Support Palestinian Rights?

Is it now a Crime to Support Palestinian Rights?

By Yara Hawari | – ( Al-Shabaka ) A new wave of repressive UK government policies aims to suppress protest and political expression, posing a […]

Yara Hawari

Bashar al-Assad
With Putin bogged down in Ukraine, will the Syrian Civil War Reignite?

With Putin bogged down in Ukraine, will the Syrian Civil War Reignite?

By Muhammad Hussein | – ( Middle East Monitor) – Pivotal moments in history rarely present themselves, but when they do, that is exactly what […]

Middle East Monitor

Batteries
California Milestone:  State for First Time briefly Generates 103% of its Electricity from Renewables

California Milestone: State for First Time briefly Generates 103% of its Electricity from Renewables

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On one day in May, Lauren Sommer at NPR reported, California ran for several hours on 103% renewable electricity, which […]

Juan Cole

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How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

How Long Will We Sacrifice Our Kids to the Gun Lobby’s Paranoia?

( Otherwords ) – Mass shootings are good for gun sales. In the days following the horrific school massacre in Uvalde, Texas, firearm stocks rose. […]

Sonali Kolhatkar

Climate Change
Lessons in Activism: How Australia’s expanding environmental Movement is breaking the Climate Action Deadlock in Politics

Lessons in Activism: How Australia’s expanding environmental Movement is breaking the Climate Action Deadlock in Politics

By Robyn Gulliver, The University of Queensland | – The federal election saw voters’ growing concern about Australia’s laggardly response to climate change finally addressed, […]

The Conversation

Guns
A Country Armed to the Teeth: And Strutting Toward the Apocalypse

A Country Armed to the Teeth: And Strutting Toward the Apocalypse

By Robert Lipsyte | – ( Tomdispatch.com ) – The gun I carried on the streets of New York City in the late 1960s was […]

Tomdispatch

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